- Season 1 – surprising and charming
- Season 2 – disappointing
- Season 3 – … some good episodes and scenes
When Ted Lasso first emerged as a sleeper hit in the summer of 2020, it was the gentle hug audiences needed in the middle of pandemic lockdown, a familiar fish-out-of-water tale about a nice man infecting the cynical world around him with his niceness. …
Atlantic – Ted Lasso Has Lost Its Way
Brett Goldstein as Roy Kent was shocking, profane, and hilarious. My favourite character.
Click PLAY or watch a great scene on YouTube. As a coach, I’m proud of Roy Kent here.
Brendan Hunt as Coach Beard was weird and wise.
Nick Mohammed as Nathan “Nate” Shelley, the team’s former kit man turned assistant coach super likeable and relatable.
Like nearly everyone, it was one of my favourite TV shows of 2020.
Season 2 was … BAD. What a letdown. Nate becoming the enemy makes no sense. It’s not believable in any way.
Happily, season 3 did have some good scenes. It was worth watching again.
Hannah Waddingham as Rebecca Welton is now someone I want to know.
Juno Temple as Keeley Jones is much more interesting a character than at the start.
I’m sure every writer NOT working on this show is certain they could do better. It has tons of potential.
Some of the absurdism worked. But there were plenty of scenes that were simply dumb.
I do hope there’s a season 4 with Roy as manager.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
It’s challenging to END a TV series. But the wrap-up of season 3 was well done. I enjoyed it.
Rick McCharles 